Monday, Feb. 18 - Class topics

Today in class:

• Prepare for 7:30 iChat with Kevin Whitmer, managing editor of the Star-Ledger.  Here's how I explained to him what I'd like to do today:

  I want to focus on the advent of the CND, what it meant to the paper to get that started on as many levels as you can cover – what it has meant to the mindset of the newsroom, what it’s done regarding resources, etc. We can do this as Q&A, and I want my students to be asking questions. We have spoken in general about some issues I’d expect you to cover, but we haven’t delved deep. I think I’d also want to bring up some issues around interactivity and blog comments – to contrast our way of working as opposed to how the NYT is handling comments and how you and your staff have discussed this and feel about it.
  
  Finally, I’m thinking about spending some time before you arrive to talk about the set of news-biz-related articles in today’s NYT biz section and maybe getting some react from you on whatever issues that might raise for us. In case you haven’t seen, here are a few links – interesting stuff - Times to cut 100newsroom jobs,  - 4th LA Times editor in 3 years, Companies combine to sell ads on the web 

  I'd like to spend some time preparing for this as if it were an interview, and if there's a little more time, we'll read those articles and discuss.

• wrap on this chat
• time on Photoshop (exercise 1 and 2) and Soundslides exercises.